It is a truth universally acknowledged that virtually no one, with the possible exception of the American porn star Stormy Daniels, has ever benefited from a relationship with Donald Trump. This axiom is likely to apply to Alberta’s premier, Danielle Smith, who raced off to Mar-a-Lago a year ago to be at the U.S. president’s […]
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Mark Carney’s Rupture Address – a true emperor-has-no-clothes moment for the world!
The “rules-based international order” was always pish-posh that had very little to do with international law and boiled down to Washington making up the rules and giving the rest of us our orders. Which, it must be acknowledged, for the most part we cheerfully obeyed. But I’ll tell ya, one thing that wasn’t on my […]
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Naheed Nenshi’s response to Alberta separatists is still too nice, too nuanced, and too naïve
We can all agree that last Friday’s opinion piece by NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi on Alberta separatism published by CTV News had an accurate headline: The threat to our nation is very real. After that mildly promising beginning, though, things went downhill. I guess someone in the Opposition’s strategic brain trust reckoned Mr. Nenshi needed […]
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List describes two weeks of needless deaths and near misses in Alberta ER hallway and waiting room ‘death zones’
A well-known emergency medicine physician has compiled a list of six patients who died waiting for a doctor to attend to them in Alberta’s packed and chaotic Emergency Rooms over the two weeks at the end of 2025 and the start of 2026. The list, researched by Medicine Hat ER physician Paul Parks and other […]
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Notwithstanding the Emergencies Act ruling by the Federal Court of Appeal, the matter should still be settled before the Supreme Court
Notwithstanding Friday’s ruling by the Federal Court of Appeal that the Trudeau Government’s use of the Emergencies Act to end the convoy occupation of Ottawa in January and February 2022 was unreasonable, the most appropriate place for this matter to be settled once and for all remains the Supreme Court of Canada. Naturally, the current […]
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Matt Jones, one of the UCP’s Gang of Four health ministers, actually admits there’s a capacity problem in Alberta’s hospitals!
More than anything, yesterday’s press conference about how the Alberta Government proposes to fix the horrific mess in this province’s hospital Emergency Rooms where patients can wait up to 72 hours to see a doctor appeared to be an effort to look busy until voters can be distracted by something else. After all, what else […]
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CEO of new medical bureaucracy promises ‘province-wide response’ to Alberta’s messed up ERs
In a back-handed admission that Alberta’s hospital Emergency Rooms are in a colossal mess, the CEO of one of the United Conservative Party Government’s confusing tangle of new medical bureaucracies said in a press release Monday that there will be “a province-wide response that has seen all sectors of the health-care system cooperate to create […]
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Alberta has four health ministers, and there’s not been a chirp from any of them about the mess in the province’s Emergency Rooms
Ever since emergency medicine physicians in Edmonton called last Friday for Alberta to declare a state of emergency about the catastrophic condition of the city’s hospital Emergency Rooms, the only sound from Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government has been an unnerving silence. Out here in Wild Rose Country, we have four health ministers. […]
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Venezuelan heavy oil coming on stream could spell a $9-billion Alberta deficit, former energy minister predicts
Former United Conservative Party energy minister Sonya Savage spoke the truth on Friday when she forcefully suggested on a podcast that without public funding Premier Danielle Smith’s perpetual pipeline project is little more than a pipe dream. This has been obvious from the get-go, of course. Still, it’s nice to hear someone long influential in […]
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Thanks to the UCP, Alberta measles epidemic is back in the news, along with Alberta’s chaotic packed hospitals
Turns out having a governing party dominated by MAGA-influenced anti-vaxxers and ideological privatizers like Premier Danielle Smith isn’t actually good for health care! Who could have seen that coming? Alberta’s United Conservative Party seems to have been having trouble coming up with outrageous stuff to attack Ottawa about this week – since Monday they’ve only […]
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Alberta can no longer be considered a safe place to invest, and the reason can be summed up in two words: ‘Danielle Smith’
Compared to Venezuelan oilsands crude, according to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canadian oil is cheaper, cleaner, and “clearly low risk.” “Canadian oil will be competitive because it is low-risk, clearly low-risk, low cost,” Mr. Carney told a news conference in Paris yesterday. “There’s been huge progress on getting down the costs, and low carbon, which […]
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Will Trump’s Venezuela raid help Danielle Smith get her pipeline to B.C.’s North Coast?
Credit where credit is due, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Venezuelan raid and kidnapping has accomplished one important thing: There was hardly a word in the media about the Epstein Files most of the day yesterday! Now comes the important Canadian question, though: Can the fallout from the raid also get someone to build another pipeline […]